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The Godfather Part III (1990)

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Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 33  Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.4/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins

Synopsis: In the third film of Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone family saga, 20 years have passed and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is in failing health and haunted by remorse over his brother Fredo's murder. As part of his plan for legitimizing the family business, Michael contributes a large donation... In the third film of Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone family saga, 20 years have passed and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is in failing health and haunted by remorse over his brother Fredo's murder. As part of his plan for legitimizing the family business, Michael contributes a large donation to the church and accepts an honor from the pope. His nephew, Vincent (Andy Garcia), becomes his protégé with the help of Connie (Talia Shire) while his own children, Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) and Mary (Sofia Coppola), remain free from a life of crime. After selling his casinos and laundering his money through the Vatican, Michael attempts to take over a European-owned company, International Immobiliare. However, former mob colleagues Don Altobello (Eli Wallach) and Joey Zasa (Joe Mantegna) force his return to the underworld, and Vincent's brash temper almost starts a mob war. In Sicily, Michael instructs Vincent to form an alliance with his enemy, Don Altobello. Many of the same cast from Coppola's first two films are back in this powerful sequel. New to the series is George Hamilton, surprisingly effective as Michael's financial advisor, B. J. Harrison. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Joe Mantegna, Eli Wallach, Diane Keaton

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

DVD Info

Release:

May 10, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widesrceen - 16.9

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

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The acting is merely passable, several characters are given nothing to do, and Michael's paranoid self-pity lends the film an absurd morality: Coppola expects us to sympathise with the semblance of virtue.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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2/5

Fans of the first two instalments are likely to find The Godfather Part III an unworthy heir to the tradition. First-time voters, meanwhile, will surely wonder what on earth all the fuss was all about.

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09/15/04
Barry McIlheney
Empire Magazine
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3/5

Anyone with memories of The Godfather and its 1974 sequel will shudder at how Coppola reduces their powerful iconography to the level of a daytime soap.

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04/17/01
Neil Smith
BBC
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Considering the way it inadvertently lampoons and nearly diminishes the earlier two films, this is nothing less than a travesty.

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02/07/08
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
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The movie, a heady thicket of political intrigue and double crosses, is slower, talkier, and more prosaic than the first two films, and its narrative seams sometimes show. And yet it's more than the sum of its mazelike convolutions.

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12/12/07
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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The Godfather Part III matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu.

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12/12/07
Variety Staff
Variety
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2.5/4

An epic without epic scope, a muted, strained, unnatural affair that never comes into dramatic focus.

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12/12/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Represents a certain moral improvement over its predecessors by refusing to celebrate and condemn violence and duplicity in the same breath, or at least to the same degree.

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12/12/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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No review available.

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12/09/07
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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Indeed the disappointment many of its detractors assert it to be - in the same way that some of Orson Welles' subsequent works can be called disappointments when compared to Citizen Kane.

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10/25/07
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
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2/5

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03/16/07
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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Very few have stepped up to bat to defend The Godfather Part III (1990), which I consider a masterpiece and the equal of Parts I and II.

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10/20/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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5/5

O terceiro ato da obra máxima do Cinema.

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07/28/06
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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2/5

A huge letdown that sorely misses Robert Duvall.

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10/21/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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3/5

I think if you can take a step back from the first two movies and if you can ignore the younger Ms. Coppola, this is still a more artful and ambitious movie than the industry standard.

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09/28/05
Dan Fienberg
Zap2it.com
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3/5

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06/26/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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3/5

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01/29/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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1/5

No review available.

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11/19/04
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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10/28/04
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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2/5

To call this the weakest of the three movies is like calling Fredo the weakest of the three brothers. Duh.

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09/24/04
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World
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